The development regions of Romania ( ro, Regiunile de dezvoltare ale României) refer to the eight regional divisions created in

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, a ...

in 1998 in order to better co-ordinate regional development as Romania progressed towards accession to the

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(EU). The development regions correspond to NUTS 2-level divisions in

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. Despite becoming increasingly significant in regional development projects, Romania's development regions do not actually have an administrative status and do not have a legislative or executive council or government. Rather, they serve a function for allocating EU PHARE funds for regional development, as well as for collection of regional statistics. They also co-ordinate a range of regional development projects and became members of the

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when Romania joined the EU on January 1, 2007.

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There are eight development regions in Romania, which (with the exception of București-Ilfov) are named by their geographical position in the country: *RO1 –

Macroregiunea Unu Macroregion One (Romanian: ''Macroregiunea Unu'') is a statistical (NUTS 1) region of Romania. It consists of two development regions (Northwest and Center), twelve counties, respectively. Geography Climate Due to geographical position, clim ...

: ** Nord-Vest – RO11; 6 counties; 2,600,132 inhabitants; ** Centru – RO12; 6 counties; 2,360,805 inhabitants; *RO2 – Macroregiunea Doi: ** Nord-Est – RO21; 6 counties; 3,302,217 inhabitants; ** Sud-Est – RO22; 6 counties; 2,545,923 inhabitants; *RO3 – Macroregiunea Trei: ** Sud - Muntenia – RO31; 7 counties; 3,136,446 inhabitants; **

București - Ilfov The București – Ilfov development region () is a development region in Romania, encompassing the national capital, Bucharest, as well as the surrounding Ilfov County. As other development regions, it does not have any administrative powers, ...

– RO32; 1 county and Bucharest; 2,272,163 inhabitants; *RO4 – Macroregiunea Patru: ** Sud-Vest Oltenia – RO41; 5 counties; 2,075,642 inhabitants; **

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– RO42; 4 counties; 1,828,313 inhabitants;

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